“Thanks to modern technology, members of Congress can debate, vote, and carry out their constitutional duties without having to leave the accountability and personal contact of their congressional districts,” Pearce told The Hill‘s Jennifer Martinez in a statement. “Keeping legislators closer to the people we represent would pull back Washington’s curtain and allow constituents to see and feel, first-hand, their government at work.” Martinez also noted that Pearce unsuccessfully floated the proposal during the last session of Congress.

No word, yet, on how Pearce plans to pull off a proposal that would likely have every lobbyist in the Beltway lobbying against it.